Hood Family and Coal Mining

Craighall Colliery

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Craighall Colliery 'Cheque Coal Bill'
Coal Output of Individual Colliers for the week ending 10 March 1804

 

For each collier, their daily output of great coal has been recorded. The total for the week also includes the seam and wood coal they produced. Some colliers may appear more than once if they worked at two different pits during the same week.

 

All other payments made that week are detailed in the Oncost Accounts

 

 

Cowpitts Colliery Cheque Coal Bill
for the week ending 2nd August 1806

Daily Bill of Great Weekly  
No1 M   Great Sm;
wood
July & Augt 28 29 30 31 1 2 @8d 4d 2½ 3½
P Galloway 8 - - - - - 8 2 13 -
Thos Archd 3 - - 8 5 11 27 3 8 -
Wm Archd 2 - - 8 11 12 33 3 19 -
Alex Robertson - 1 - 1 7 13 22 3 9 -
Robt Wilson - - - 2 1 3 7 5 10 -
Dad Russell - - - - - - - - - -
Jo Penman - - - 1 6 - 7 2 5 -
Henry Wilson - - - 3 - 7 10 3 5 -
Rot Jack & Co 13 21 - 14 17 20 85 23 55 -
James Brown 5 5 - 5 6 6 27 - - 42
Jo Archibald 2 4 6 14 10 9 45 - - -
Will Wright 7 5 - 6 6 5 27 1 1 -
35 39 125 152 142 97 643 - - -

 

No2 & 16    
Jas Russell - 5 2 9 6 - 22 2 12 -
Jo Galloway - 5 3 10 9 6 32 - 9 -
John King - 6 3 8 9 5 31 3 12 -
Tho Archd - 6 - 5 12 7 30 3 10 -
Ad Rutherford - 3 - 7 6 2 18 - 10 -
R Moffat & Co 1 3 22 17 16 9 66 6 36 -
Hen Archibald 11 9 1 12 15 10 38 6 19 -
A Hyslop [ ] 1 10 - 6 15 10 42 - 3 -
A Rutherford 1 3 - 8 5 11 28 2 22 -
Dd Wilson - 3 - 8 5 11 25 1 24 -
And Gray [ ] 7 7 12 18 13 13 70 6 61 -
21 60 43 107 111 80 422 27 218 -

 

 

No5 M  
Robt Archd 2 8 - - 6 6 23 3 23 -
Wm Wilson sn 3 - 7 8 9 9 36 6 27 -
And Archibald 7 17 13 18 16 13 84 16 34 -
David Ross 2 4 10 7 7 4 34 12 3 -
Jas Brown 4 3 - 6 7 9 29 3 6 -
Jo Archd Jun H 1 6 9 5 8 7 36 6 15 -
Jo Archd sn - 6 1 8 10 13 38 5 23 -
Hen Archd - 2 2 2 3 4 13 - 18 -
[ ] Archibald 3 - 5 7 8 7 30 4 19 -
W Wilson jun 2 2 - 1 7 7 19 3 10 -
And Currie - - - 5 8 - 10 1 2 -
Dd Archd 3 8 - 3 5 9 28 8 15 -
Jo Wilson - 3 3 2 4 3 15 - 19 -
[Sm] Aitken 3 6 - - 6 8 23 - - -
P Cumming - - - - 4 - 4 - 2 -
Geo Lindsay - 5 9 4 7 6 31 11 23 -
Cov Swan - 3 3 1 3 4 14 4 10 -
R Wilson 3 4 - - - 5 12 - 11 -
H Archd [Lumsd] - - - - - - - - 12 -
34 77 62 77 112 114 452 82 275 -

No11 M  Pit  
Ab.. Atch 4 - 10 7 4 11 36 9 26 -
Tho Bennet 4 10 - 9 11 12 46 5 18 -
Will Drysdale - 6 - 8 10 10 34 8 24 -
Rob King - - - - - - - - - -
Geo Bell 2 9 7 11 10 11 50 8 8 -
H Archd - 2 2 8 4 6 22 2 15 -
Jo Archd - 2 4 3 - 7 16 1 9 -
G Bennet 4 5 12 16 17 13 67 19 5 -
Jas Drysdale - 4 - 10 8 10 32 7 5 -
Wm Brown sen - 4 - 6 7 9 26 2 7 -
Wm Brown jun - 3 8 8 11 12 42 11 12 -
Wm Lindsay 4 5 - - 7 9 25 7 10 -
18 50 43 86 89 110 396 71 141 -

 

 

NAME ABBREVIATIONS -
Abm-Abraham ; Alexr-Alexander ; Chas-Charles ; Dd-David ; Geo:-George ; Jas-James ; Jon-John ; Pet-Peter ; Robt-Robert ; Thos-Thomas ; Wm-William ; Waltr-Walter

 

Cowpitts Colliery Ledger 1804 -09   -   National Archives of Scotland reference: GD377/374

 

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